From the Forums: Windows Phone 7.8, BlackBerry 10 announcement and Microsoft

Welcome to another From the Forums! This calendar week has been a busy one with the last handful of days featuring the launch of BlackBerry 10, as well as reports that Windows Telephone 7.8 is officially rolling out to consumers. It's been an eventful day today with a few articles comparing the Z10 from BlackBerry against Windows Phone and the Lumia 920 in particular, along with our usual news coverage.

But what'southward being discussed on the Windows Phone community forum?

Windows Phone 7.viii is a hot topic, and has been since information technology was revealed by Microsoft to exist heading to those who still own Windows Phone 7 handsets. With the rollout boot off, forum member konaitor has created a thread to see who has received the notification and upgraded their hardware. Sporting new tiles and a number of other features, the update is set up to refresh the life of older Windows Phones.

And so have yous received the update? Enjoying the new features in 7.eight? Be sure to head on over to the "Check-in for 7.8 Update Through Zune, Take you gotten yours yet?" thread and notify the fellow WPCentralites of your experience.

BlackBerry launches the Z10, thoughts?

As mentioned above, BlackBerry has launched the Z10 smartphone to rejuvenate the brand and foreclose the company from continuing in its down screw. But what does everyone recollect about the two devices that have been announced? The Z10 and Q10 are on offer and take been discussed in the community forum to some extent.

This is what community member joeynox had to say near BlackBerry 10:

"Today is dday. BB10 is going to exist shown off and the tech world is going to jump on it. At that place's and then much buzz around this compared to the launch of wp8. Plus bb10 will have all the apps that are missing from wp8. Today can exist a very bad day for wp8 and MS if Rims new bone and phone is the next god phone."

It's a fair betoken. There's always the possibility that BlackBerry could regain its share of the market, but then there's the fact that it has been slipping relatively apace for a while now. Is there enough in BlackBerry 10 to sway consumers and salvage the platform? What are your thoughts on BlackBerry'southward chances? Add together your thoughts in the "Today is DDay or BB10 day" thread.

Microsoft tin can learn much from BlackBerry already?

Microsoft has caused concern for many of its fans and followers - including u.s.a. here at Windows Phone Central HQ. We'd all like to run across "more" from the company when it comes to Windows Phone. The BlackBerry launch could teach the company a thing or two about just how lightly it's bankroll Windows Phone, or is Microsoft pouring in the required corporeality of funding and team effort already?

Forum member bilzkh doesn't think and then:

"Now look at WP8. At its center it is a superb Os with the social network integration, lenses integration, augmented reality apps, NFC and Wallet, etc. And so why, why in the name of all that is rational and sensible is MS not pushing each of these elements to the end-user in meaningful ways? Or rather, simply put, why isn't MS putting in the money and commitment behind such an endeavour?

Why is it that nosotros have to put upwardly with a certain business partitioning 'evaluating' Xbox's value on Windows Phone? Someone at the top needs to put Windows Phone front and heart as a key colonnade of Microsoft's futurity in an increasingly 'mobile calculating' world, but clearly that isn't happening."

Does this ring whatever bells with anything you've considered, or do you believe Microsoft is getting most things right then far? Audio your opinion in the "What Microsoft should larn from BlackBerry" thread.

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